James Luna La Jolla Band of Mission (Luiseño) Indians 1950 Born in Orange, California 1976 Received B.F.A., University of California, Irvine 1983 Received M.S. in Counseling, San Diego State University Lives on the La Jolla Indian Reservation, San Diego County, California SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES 1981 Rolando Castellón Gallery, San Francisco, California 1982 James Luna, San Jose State University, California 1987 The Artifact Piece, Sushi Gallery, performed at the San Diego Museum of Man, California 1989 Two Worlds, International Arts Relations (INTAR) Gallery, New York; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California 1991 On the Spiritual, Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, Delgado Community College, New Orleans, Louisiana 1992 James Luna: Actions & Reactions, An Eleven Year Survey of Installation/Performance Work 1981–1992, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz Places for People to Meet, Art Awareness, Lexington, New York The Sacred Colors, Galeria Posada, Sacramento, California James Luna, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida Two Multimedia Installations, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico Indian Tales, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California; The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada Indian Tales: Stories of Native People from the Rez and Cities, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Sometimes It’s Not So Beautiful to Be an Indian, Intermedia Arts and Two Rivers Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota The Red Album, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1993 Relocation Stories, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California New Basket Designs, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois The History of the Luiseño People: La Jolla Reservation, Christmas 1990, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Indian Tales, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California; Humboldt State University, Arcata, California James Luna, University of Colorado at Denver; University of Oklahoma, Norman The Shameman, Art Awareness, Lexington, New York 1994 The Sacred Colors, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut Old Designs/New Messages, Pomona College Museum of Art, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, California The Shameman: My Way, Imagining Indians: Native American Film and Video Festival, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Arizona; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina James Luna: My Way, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York My Way, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada The Web of Life (with Palomar Choir and Chamber Singers), Palomar College, San Marcos, California 1995 Tribal Identity: An Installation by James Luna, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire The Shameman, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 1996 Tribal Identity, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland The Dream Hat Ritual, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California In My Dreams, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California; ATLATL Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma; The Swiss Institute, New York; Siena Heights College, Adrian, Michigan 1997 The Dream Hat Ritual, Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, Washington Our Indians, Arizona State University, Tempe Two Installations, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California 1998 The Spirits of Virtue and Evil Await My Ascension, University of Wyoming, Laramie; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Our Indians, Florida State University, Tallahassee Collage, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1999 The Ballad of the Shameman and Betty Day Bird, Tozzer Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts American Indian Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta; Living Arts of Tulsa, Oklahoma The Last Wild California Indian, Cleveland Public Theater, Ohio The Last Wild California Indian and Collage, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York 2000 Outfits & Other Paraphernalia for Night Raids, California State University, San Marcos The Ballad of the Shameman and Betty Day Bird, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, Oklahoma The Chapel of the Sacred Colors, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada American Indian Studies, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; 7A*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Futuristic Native Outfits for Night Raids (and Other Paraphernalia), 911 Media Arts, Seattle, Washington Petroglyphs in Motion [performance], SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico 2001 James Luna, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, California Take a Picture with a Real Indian and Creation and Destruction of an Indian Reservation, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas American Indian Studies, Washington State University, Pullman American Indian Studies II, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; University of California San Diego; University of California Santa Cruz The Deadfall Revue, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico Subterranean Post Indian Blues, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, California Take a Picture with a Real Indian, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 2002 Petroglyphs in Motion [installation], de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, California 2003 The Sun and Moon Blues, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada Artists on the Cutting Edge: Cross Fertilizations series, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California Take a Picture with a Real Indian/The Sun and Moon Blues, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1975 Carl N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis Native American Art Exhibit for the Governor of California, California State Capitol Building, Sacramento Native American Art, American Indian Studies Department, San Diego State University, California 1981 Carl N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis 1986 Made in Aztlan, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, California He’s Resting Now, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California 1987 Arts and Culture Show, Public Arts Advisory Council, San Diego, California En Memoria, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California Street Sets, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, California 1988 Up Tiempo!, El Museo del Barrio/Creative Time, New York California Mission Daze, Installation Gallery, San Diego, California Native American Art in the ‘80s, University of California, Riverside 1990 The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, in collaboration with the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art Art History/AA Meeting, Atlanta College of Art, Georgia Disputed Identities, San Francisco Camerawork, California California Mission Daze, California Indian Conference, Riverside The Tell Tale Heart: Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. 2 Worlds, American Indian Community House Gallery, New York Cultural Diversity in American Theater, University of California, San Diego 1991 Facing the Finish: Some Recent California Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Encuentro: Invasion of the Americas and the Making of the Mestizo, Social and Public Art Resource Center Gallery, Venice, California SITEseeing: Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Disputed Identities, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside; Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia Selected Works 1990–91, Palomar College, San Marcos, California Contemporary American Indian Art, San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, California Indigenous America: Honoring Our Heritage, University of California, San Diego Counter-Colonialismo, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California San Francisco Arts Commission Public Art Program, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, California Submuloc Show/Columbus Wohs, ATLATL Traveling Exhibition, Phoenix, Arizona 1992 Sites of Recollection: Four Altars and a Rap Opera, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Museum of the National Center of Afro- American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts Body Takes, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Ontario, Canada Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario As Public As Race, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada The Alcove Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico Kísh Tétayawet Wampkísh (Dream House) with Lewis deSoto, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, California Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma The People Themselves: Native American Photography, Los Angeles Photography Center, California Message Carriers: Contemporary Photography by Native American Artists, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Massachusetts Native America: Reflecting Contemporary Realities, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California Facing the Finish: Some Recent California Art, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California Counterweight: Alienation, Assimilation, Resistance, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California 1993